New Bin Laden Video To Be Released Within 72 Hours

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In case you missed Drudge’s flashing siren:

Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden plans a new video addressing the American people regarding the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, terror monitoring groups said Thursday.

SITE Intelligence Group said an Internet announcement of the plan included a photo of the al-Qaida leader from the upcoming video—his beard, which in previous messages had been streaked with gray, was entirely dark.

Ace reports that Jihadist websites are posting statements similar to chatter heard before 9/11.

We are to be expecting a “special gift” on the 6th anniversary of 9/11.

Lest we forget, the Muslim Day parade in NYC, since its inception in 1983, has been held on the last weekend of the month of September. This year, it’s being held on September 9th.

Just sayin’

Counterterrorism Blog has a good roundup of all the latest poop.

The Jawa Report thinks the “special gift’ may be the Bin Laden Video.

Allahpundit says that wherever he’s hiding, he’s well stocked with Grecian Formula.

Stop The ACLU reminds us of all the terror threats from this past summer.

Gateway Pundit is already comparing the new OBL still to one from a 2004 video. Thinks they match up.

Michelle Malkin: The video due within hours?

The Anchoress wonders if there’s something in the wind…

We know we live in interesting times. Never forget they are – as ever – Supernatural times, too.

Now might be a good time to unplug the iPods and Blackberries, turn off the E! Channel and take a good look around. All manner of things can take you by surprise when you are distracted, when you are engulfed in noise and image and are unwilling – or unable – to find the silence in which so much may be heard.

Maybe there is nothing at all in the wind. But if that is true, it will be unusual.

UPDATE:

The Blotter is reporting this morning, (9/7) that intelligence sources are saying that the video proves that OBL is still alive, but that the beard looks fake.

They say that the tape is aimed at potential suicide bombers in the West.

Sources in the intelligence community, who are already busy analyzing the image of bin Laden for clues of his whereabouts, say the tape is likely to be a direct message to Americans.

Most Excellent!:

Allah reports that in the video, Bin Laden criticizes Democrats for not getting us out of Iraq.

Remember, it’s an absolute article of faith on the left that Bin Laden wants us in Iraq, has always wanted us in Iraq, and will continue to want us in Iraq to give him a casus belli with which to recruit.

I think Bin Laden is being a bit unfair. The Dems deserve an A for effort.

Harry Reid gets an A+.

Something Awful has an interesting take on the OBL Video.  It’s retarded, but it made me laugh.

13 thoughts on “New Bin Laden Video To Be Released Within 72 Hours”

  4. Terrorists: We will have a surprise!

    Good peeps: Oh? What’s the surprise?

    Terrorists: The surprise is…our announcement of a surprise!

    Good peeps: That’s it?

    Terrorists: And a video by bin Ladin from three years ago!

    Good peeps: *cocks eyebrow*

    Terrorists: Fear our time machine capabilities!

    Good peeps: Riiiight.

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  5. Not to be a stick in the mud (is that the phrase I am looking for?), but I think all this talk of “surprises” and imminent attacks and all that is ridiculous.

    At some level, our enemies are *always* plotting against us. We need to destroy them when they are plotting and when they are about to execute their plots. This image I see forming in the public mind of terrorists that lay dormant until a date of significance is quite dangerous: terrorists are not occultists who wait for special dates: they will attack when they attack, which can be any time.

    It must amuse them how we jump every time they threaten a surprise.

    We should be jumping all the time. And stomping.

    Trivia: On July 14, 1683, the Siege of Vienna by the Ottomans begins.

    On September 11, 1683, the Battle of Vienna begins as Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, arrives to save Christian Europe from the seemingly almost-successful invasion of the Muslim Turkish forces.

    On September 12, 1683, the very next day, Sobieski and Europe’s forces triumph over the Ottomans: the Siege and Battle of Vienna come to an end with a victory for the Christian Europeans and a defeat for the Muslim Ottoman Turks. The Ottoman Turks would never be able to penetrate Europe so far again.

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  6. I propose we mock the Islamists by celebrating Good King Sobieski Day on September 12, flaunting the victory of the Christian Europeans over the Muslim Ottomans, from which the Ottomans could never recover.

    Part of it: we should all publicly eat croissants, a pastry invented to celebrate the aforementioned victory.

    I do wish we were more aware of these important battles between the forces of Islam and those of civilization.

    Another important battle was the Battle of Poitiers (also known as the Battle of Tours) on October 10, AD 732, wherein Charles Martel stopped the seemingly invincible Muslim armies, stopping their further invasion and occupation of the Iberian-French region of Europe.

    It would take until the Reconquista under Their Catholic Majesties Isabel and Ferdinand to reclaim what the Arabs had invaded and conquered.

    Regarding the same: next time you meet an Islamist, ask him or her: what on earth were the Arabs doing in Spain if Islam is not imperialistic and colonial/colonizing? For that matter, what were they doing in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Greece, et cetera?

    Then: what makes Islamic imperialism good but American imperialism (as they allege exists) bad?

    When will the Muslims pull out from Spain? What about Holland? Is it not a sin, after all, in Islamic law to live in an infidel land unless the purpose for being there is to bring it under Islam? So: when will the Muslims make “hijrah” (migration to a Muslim land)? If they will not, may we assume they remain to conquer the area in the name of Islam?

    May we Westerners do the same in Muslim lands?

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  8. Does anyone know how UbL’s beard color has varied over the years?

    I ask because if I remember correctly, I thought his beard had streaks of gray. I just saw a picture on TV which may have been taken from his supposedly recent video. His beard was black. (One cannot tell the color of the hair on his head, what with his permanently-attached headgear.)

    Now, it is “sunnah” (that is, to follow the example of Muhammad) for men and women to dye their hair, but they dye it red. The sunnah refers not only to the act of dyeing but also with what: and sunnah says it is with “hennah”, which produces a brownish-red or reddish-brown color.

    So, a black beard looks quite off to me.

    Which may or may not have any significance whatsoever. So, I’m just sayin’.

    Regarding permanently-attached headgear: Prince Vlad II of Wallachia, also known as Vlad Tsepeş and Vlad Drakula (his father was Prince Vlad I of Wallachia or Vlad Drakul, meaning Vlad the Dragon; Vlad Drakula means Vlad [son] of the Dragon), once received visitors from the Ottoman sultan. (V and the Ottomans go a long way back: he and his brother were kidnapped and held to guarantee their father’s loyalty to the Ottoman sultan; his brother, Radu the Handsome, would become one of the most influential figures of the Ottoman sultan’s court – partly because Radu was the Ottoman sultan’s favorite lover.) Now, V ruled through fear. And intimidation. So when the Ottoman delegates bowed to him but refused to remove their turbans, Prince V “rewarded” their fidelity to their customs by nailing the turbans to their heads. True story.

    Prince Vlad I of Wallachia was known as the Dragon as a reference to a group he joined, the Order of the Dragon, whose aim was to protect Christian Europe from Muslim imperialism. Its members’ motives were partially political and partially religious. If I remember correctly, the King of Hungary was part of the Order. But it was not as successful as they had hoped.

    And the man who brought about the fall of Vlad II of Wallachia who, despite his outrageous policies, was the most valiant man in stopping the Ottomans, was none other than Radu the Handsome, right hand of the Ottoman sultan, brother of Vlad II. (There is some speculation that the Romanian Orthodox Church, by choice or after being coerced, coöperated with Radu to bring about Vlad II’s downfall: Vlad II never had a very close relationship with the Orthodox Church.)

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  10. Heh.

    I still think he will be the next victim of the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue deathsquad. Such resplendently black hair – he’s either a metrosexual or another-sexual ifyouknowwhatimeanandiknowyoudo. And both may involve execution. Hah, just kidding: in Islamism, everything involves execution.

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  12. The simple answer, Deb: our Lord Jesus Christ.

    Although I renounced Islam a few years before finding Christ, as it were, it was only when I was enlightened by His saving light, His light upon me to see the world — and humanity — as it is, that I was able to see the errors in Islam and its world(s).

    My belief and opinion — which I will hold until proven otherwise — is that people cannot adequately assess Islam (and its worlds and peoples) until they have nothing to loose by doing so.

    Many Muslims admit this, to a degree, by their actions: anyone who accurately assesses Islam (and its worlds and peoples) but who identifies as a Muslim is cast out of Islam by other Muslims, who cannot believe how a Muslim can undermine Islam (and its worlds and peoples) in such a fashion.

    A cousin of mine confessed to me that the whole battle over Islam’s soul is confusing indeed. So many theories, so many sects, so many claims, so many valiant (and often successful) attempts to back up claims by citing the Fundamental Sources. But he mentioned something that made me very despondent regarding bringing Islam’s people into the modern world: he said the actual issue isn’t (or shouldn’t be) a matter of politics but is one of truth. What is at stake, he believed, was truth and salvation. So all these issues of peace, just war, humanitarianism, decency, civilization are completely irrelevant: what matters is what is true, whatever that truth may dictate. (This obsession with “truth” over and above its consequences should provide a major explanation for why many Muslims do what they do, as barbaric as we might see it: to them, The Truth dictates it, which they will blindly obey, actual values and morals and standards and civility and humanity cast aside. Example: what on earth was an arsenal of arms and a guerrilla army doing in a mosque next to a girls’ school?)

    And as much as I would like to believe traditionalists (such as the Barelvis in South Asia) and conservatives can use the Fundamental Sources to justify quietism or being civilized, the skill of the reformists — almost all of whom are Islamists, and all of the successful and popular ones being Islamists — in using the Fundamental Sources to not only to support their claims but to construct a seamless narrative of historical revisionism, laws, theology, and even mysticism with which to support and spread Islamism betrays to me the fact that the reformists will only grow in power, and their narrative will be seen as authoritative and true. Unless we can institute a radical revision of the role and character and interpretations of the Fundamental Sources (and thereby completely transforming Islam itself, as has happened with Christianity and Judaism), Islamism will only grow, miring Muslims more deeply in Islam and preventing them from even entertaining thoughts or statements or reasonings critical of Islamism.

    Consider, for example, the nature of Islamists. Even if they are not particularly religious in acts — there are plenty of people who identify with Islamism but who do not follow the laws and requirements thereof — their zeal for Islam(ism) and all of its agendas is almost mystical in nature. It is not possible — ab.so.lutel.ly im.poss.ible, mark my words — to get them out of this mindset without completely transforming and changing the person’s entire personality, character, and paradigms. And when less zealous Muslims see such people, their willingness to stick out by criticizing Islam (rather than sticking out by supporting it) decreases exponentially.

    Indeed, the argument may be made that Islamism borders on being a mind-control NRM (new religious movement) — often called a “cult” (which word I do not use because it has legitimate and neutral uses in academic usage) — which is practically viral in its spread. And its spread also means far more social pressure upon “regular” Muslims to conform accordingly.

    Perhaps an observation: all of my parents’ Muslim friends, decades ago, used to quite modern. They even used to drink. Now, all of them, almost without exception, have turned into the type of irrational Islamists that we have all come to fear.

    Indeed, we recently went to a wedding and my mother and sister were commenting on how they could not find a certain person, whom they were told was there. She was right beside them the whole time: they could not recognize her because she recently began wearing a hijab. She never wore a hijab before. And she has no reason to become religious all of a sudden: her children are married and out of the house (children is one reason many Muslims suddenly become hyper-religious), her husband is retired, they are not very socially active. But these sorts of trends are alarmingly consistent and are only increasing.

    I see the same among my own relatives: those who engage themselves in Western aspects (anime, et cetera) seem immune, but those that are connected with the South Asian culture and society and community — which necessarily comprises of South Asian Muslims — are only becoming more and more religious. And more and more irrational.

    Last time there was a gathering, I elected to read a volume of the Qur’an (it was a house-warming gathering, which includes people reading a volume of the Qur’an, the merit of which is supposed to rest on the house and its inhabitants) so I would have an excuse not to sit in and listen to their utterly ridiculous religious, political, and theological debates. As a younger member of the community, it would not be my place to speak up. Which is good, because I would be sorely tempted to give them all such a tongue-lashing they would never forget.

    And this idiocy is increasing!

    And you should see how they treat those people who challenge these trends: the least they are accused of is being ignorant of Islam, if not an apostate. A common accusation is being an agent of [insert conspiracy, of which there are many in the Muslim imagination]. All arguments are simply dismissed – they won’t even be heard. If it is critical of Islam and how it is implemented (except in the most vague of terms), the common Muslim is indoctrinated and reared to reject at the beginning any such thought, statement, and argument. The modern Islamist embellishment is that all such efforts are orchestrated by entities hostile to Islam — and so because they are in the service of Satan — which Muslims may knowingly (traitors, apostates, people in the pay of Satan’s servants) or unknowingly (ignorant, gullible, troubled, illiterate) become a part of. And so then begins the preaching, trying to make the wayward Muslim see the error of his ways.

    So, unless we can give Muslims something else to hang on to, whether Jesus Christ or a radically reformed and opened Islam, or American nationalism, or Western civilization, or whatever, they will not let go of Islam. What makes this particularly difficult is that Islam and aspects thereof are intrinsically entwined in the social fabric of Muslims’ communities. And people notice anyone who strays, often with unpleasant social consequences on the one who is seen to stray. This motivates people to toe the line, even if they disagree, and restrain their motivation or desire to leave Islam in whatever way.

    Em, hope this made sense.

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